FOOD SUPPLIES AND PROVISIONING

4205
TELEGRAM TO THE REVOLUTIONARY MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE 5TH ARMY
Deliver to the duty commissar for immediate transmission to
Bugulma, Revolutionary Military Council of the 5th Army
13 June 1919

According to information received, at the wharves on the Belaya River approximately two million puds of grain procurements were not utilized by the Kolchakites and were left behind during their retreat. With absolute urgency, without the slightest delay, take all measures: 1) to ascertain the exact location of the grain, its quantity, and ensure its complete preservation, 2) immediately mobilize all available local transport means for the immediate dispatch of grain to Nizhny in the care of Volgoprod, without waiting for the delivery of barges and tugs from downriver, regarding which I shall issue instructions. Telegraph Narkomprod Tsyurupa regarding the locations and quantities of the grain; telegraph him every three days regarding the real measures undertaken; expenditure of grain without permission from Narkomprod is forbidden.

Chairman of the Council of Defence, Lenin.
Narkomprod Tsyurupa.

24330
TELEGRAM TO THE TVER PROVINCIAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Tver. 1) Provincial Executive Committee.
2) Council of Trade Unions
3) Board of the Tver Factory
4) Provincial Food Commissar

[17 June 1919]

In clarification of the provincial food commissar's decree, it is communicated that the introduction of a half-pound ration is envisioned only in the case of extreme necessity and in any case does not constitute a permanent measure. It is not excluded that in view of especially severe food supply conditions it may be necessary in the very near future to reduce the ration to 1/4 pound, but Narkomprod will take resolute measures to return to a normal ration in the shortest possible time.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Lenin.

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Printed from the original, typewritten and signed by Lenin. —Ed.